Document Change Management

Legal and corporate governance processes all have one thing in common: They generate large volumes of documents. Teams of professionals must produce most of these documents. The teams may be in multiple locations, and the members may have diverse responsibilities and skills. All of them must provide their input in a timely way, often influenced by one another's contributions. Someone must pull all of the input together to complete the document under strict deadline pressure. And there frequently are multiple approval steps; final approval cannot be given until all input is provided, comments considered, and several round of changes made and signed off on. <br>In other words, the success of the team generating the document depends on the ability of its members to collaborate quickly and effectively. The burden of all this administrative give and take is enormous. But the issue of collaboration is more visible now that the pressure to document compliance with complex regulations has been extended across all industries by way of Sarbanes-Oxley. Now it's everyone's problem.